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Neuroscientists have used quantum dots—light-sensitive, semiconducting particles just a few nanometers in diameter—to stimulate neurons which have been damaged by disease or age.
Scientists at UCLA have found that running a mild electric current through the brain's hippocampus improves memory function. The finding could contribute to Alzheimer's research.
The insistence of parents, teachers and physicians that children be concentrated fully and absolutely on their school work is a corruption of values, says playwright Hanif Kureishi.
The way we diagnose depression is changing, in the laboratory and the clinic. New blood tests measure depression's biomarkers while new diagnostic guidelines say grief is the same as depression.
Proteins which form part of the immune system change according to the time of day. Our 24-hour body-clock may soon become an important factor in administering medical treatments.
Inspired by the body's own immune system, Harvard researchers have engineered a nanorobotic device that can deliver molecular instructions to cancer cells, ordering suicide.
A British company has announced it will release a small gene sequencing device the size of a USB stick which plugs into a laptop computer to deliver its sequencing results.